More complex email instructions can be added to an email link. A default subject, default body and CC information can be defined. Note that spaces in any of these fields need to be replaced with the code %20.

For things such as headlines, bold, tables, lists, Redmine supports "Markdown syntax":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown. See http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax, http://agea.github.io/tutorial.md/, http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help for information on using any of these features. A few samples are included below, but the engine is capable of much more of that. For conversions see "Pandoc":http://pandoc.org. The "Redcarpet formatter":https://github.com/alminium/redmine_redcarpet_formatter is used.

Redmine includes a macros system that lets you add custom functions to insert dynamic content in formatted text. You can learn about writing your own macros in [[RedmineMacros]]. Redmine also includes a few builtin macros: